{"id":1686,"date":"2005-08-19T18:15:54","date_gmt":"2005-08-20T02:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2005-08-19T18:15:54","modified_gmt":"2005-08-20T02:15:54","slug":"qotd-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"QotD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to <i>The Economist<\/i>, August 13 issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMy professor on an accounting course at Harvard Business School 25 years ago introduced it thus: &#8220;When most of you read accounting statements now, you do not understand them. At the end of this course, you will not believe them.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p align=right>Damianos Damianos<br \/>Athens<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to The Economist, August 13 issue: My professor on an accounting course at Harvard Business School 25 years ago introduced it thus: &#8220;When most of you read accounting statements now, you do not understand them. At the end of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1686\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}